The BoD presents: The Unholy Metal Thread -RESURRECTED!

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Essential metal albums for me would be:

Heavy/Thrash
Pantera: The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power
Slayer: Hell Awaits
Slayer: Reign in Blood
Slayer: Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer: South of Heaven

Ursurper also sounds promising, though I haven't heard enough of their material to make a concrete conclusion.

Death
Cannibal Corpse: Gallery of Suicide
Cannibal Corpse: Tomb of the Mutilated
Lordaeron: So it Begins
Morbid Angel: Covenent
Skinless: Progression Towards Evil

Black

I have a lot of reason to believe black metal fanatics will want to shoot me for this, but I consider the melodic stuff the good stuff:

Dimmu Borgir: Death Cult Armageddeon
Embraced: Amorous Anethema
Old Man's Child: In Defiance of Existence
Woods of Ypres: Against the Seasons
Woods of Ypres: Pursuit of the Sun

Folk
Finntroll: Trollhammaren
Haggard: Awakening the Centuries
Haggard: Eppur Si Muove
Haggard: Thou Shalt Trust... The Seer

Goth
My Drying Bride: Angel and the Darkest River
Tristania: Widows Weeds

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I don't know much about Doom Metal, but Nortt and Crowbar sound pretty good.